“Girt about the paps with a golden girdle.” 
              — Revelation 1:13

“One like unto the Son of Man” appeared to John in Patmos, and the
beloved disciple marked that he wore a girdle of gold. A girdle, for
Jesus never was ungirt while upon earth, but stood always ready for
service, and now before the eternal throne he stays not is holy
ministry, but as a priest is girt about with “the curious girdle of the
ephod.” Well it is for us that he has not ceased to fulfil his offices
of love for us, since this is one of our choicest safeguards that he
ever liveth to make intercession for us. Jesus is never an idler; his
garments are never loose as though his offices were ended; he
diligently carries on the cause of his people. A golden girdle, to
manifest the superiority of his service, the royalty of his person, the
dignity of his state, the glory of his reward. No longer does he cry
out of the dust, but he pleads with authority, a King as well as a
Priest. Safe enough is our cause in the hands of our enthroned
Melchizedek.

Our Lord presents all his people with an example. We must never unbind
our girdles. This is not the time for lying down at ease, it is the
season of service and warfare. We need to bind the girdle of truth more
and more tightly around our loins. It is a golden girdle, and so will
be our richest ornament, and we greatly need it, for a heart that is
not well braced up with the truth as it is in Jesus, and with the
fidelity which is wrought of the Spirit, will be easily entangled with
the things of this life, and tripped up by the snares of temptation. It
is in vain that we possess the Scriptures unless we bind them around us
like a girdle, surrounding our entire nature, keeping each part of our
character in order, and giving compactness to our whole man. If in
heaven Jesus unbinds not the girdle, much less may we upon earth.
Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.

On this day...

• Isaiah 5 - 2023
• Isaiah 4 - 2023
• Hebrews 1:14 - 2011
• ELOI, ELOI LAMA SABACHTANI! - 2010
• THE FEAR OF GOD, AND THE PRIDE OF MAN - 2010
• CONSECRATION - 2010
• CREATION - 2010
• ARMINIANISM, CALVINISM, and the TRUTH - 2010
• NAVIGATING THE EMERGING CHURCH HIGHWAY-Driscoll - 2010
• Faith in progress - 2010